A 35-year-old Hudson man was killed and a 32-year-old Nashua woman was injured in a shooting Friday evening on Merrimack Street in Nashua, officials said.

"I heard bang, bang and then the last two shots were together: bang, bang," said witness Vilai Singhsi.

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Andres Garcia died around 2 a.m. Saturday after being shot multiple times with a handgun near 14 Merrimack St. around 4:14 p.m. Friday, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office.

Other neighbors heard the shots together, but Singhsi said that's not what he recalls. He said he won't forget what he heard and saw. "I looked out the window, I saw a car disappear, I saw a body lay on the pavement. The woman after the gunshot (said), 'Help, help!' You heard her right away,'" he said.

Mireily Rodriguez-Torres is expected to live. Garcia and Rodriguez-Torres were taken to hospitals in Boston after being found in front of 16 Merrimack St., officials said.

Carlos Alago-Collazo, 34, of Nashua was identified as the shooter, officials said. Alago-Collazo was found in a parked car around 8:40 p.m. at 626 Essex St. in Lawrence, Mass., where he died from an apparent suicide, authorities said.

"He was a great man. He was a great father. It's just really sad. It's really sad," said Samantha Anaya, who knew Garcia. "I think everybody is just in shock. His sister does live up the way and I visited her today. Everybody's in shock."

Alago-Collazo and Rodriguez-Torres were involved in a long-term relationship and had two children together, officials said.

Neighbors who heard the shooting said the gunshots happened in rapid succession.

“I was just watching TV and I heard four huge bangs, boom, boom, boom,” said neighbor Erin Hutchins. “But I didn’t see anything else. I didn’t hear anything. I didn’t see anything going on, and the next thing you know I heard all the police come.”

“It’s kind of disturbing because I live not too far away from here and I have two little kids, so it’s definitely not something you want to see in your neck of the woods,” said neighbor David Leonard.